A senior Nigerian politician, his wife, and a middleman have been convicted of exploiting a young street trader from Lagos whose kidney they needed in order to save the life of the couple’s seriously ill daughter. Senator Ike Ekweremadu, 60, his wife Beatrice, 56, and medical “middleman” Obinna Obeta, 50, were found guilty of conspiring to…
Nigerian Senator and Wife Convicted in UK of Buying Kidney for Daughter in Landmark Legal Case
California Hospital Refuses Transplant Surgery for Unvaccinated Woman With End-Stage Kidney Disease
SAN DIEGO, Calif.—Even on a good day, Linda Garinger of Ramona, California, thinks about dying. Since she went on kidney dialysis two years ago, she’s had a heart attack and a cardiac episode associated with her thrice-weekly treatments. Her energy is low as her other vital organs slowly fail. Her blood pressure is out of…
‘I Was Crying and Shaking’ Witness Tells UK Organ Harvesting Trial as He Recalls Hearing About Kidney Transplant
LONDON—A street trader from Nigeria has told a trial of his shocked reaction when he was told by a doctor in a London hospital he was there to donate one of his kidneys to someone, who turned out to be the daughter of a wealthy politician. Ike Ekweremadu, 60, a senator in Nigeria and a…
Home Secretary Suella Braverman Unveils ‘Toughest’ Measures to Combat UK Domestic Violence
Home Secretary Suella Braverman announced “one of the toughest suites of measures” ever to combat domestic violence in England and Wales. Under the new arrangements, the most serious domestic violence abusers will be monitored more closely and subjected to electronic tagging to protect vulnerable their partners, ex-partners, and children. Violence against women and girls will…
Unvaccinated Ukrainian Girl, 14, Adopted by US Family, Rejected by Hospital for Life-Saving Kidney Transplant
A teenager living in North Carolina has been denied life-saving surgery by Duke University Hospital officials because she is unvaccinated against COVID-19, leaving her adoptive family frantically searching for alternative treatment options. Yulia Hicks, who suffers from a rare genetic kidney condition called Senior Loken syndrome, was adopted from Ukraine nearly two years ago by her parents Chrissy…
Air Force Veteran Forced to Choose Between Getting Vaccine or Dying
Chad Carswell was barely 18 when insurgents during Operation Enduring Freedom took aim at his KC-135—a giant gas tank with wings—with him and other Air Force crewmen inside. He described a chaotic scene in an exclusive interview with The Epoch Times and the moment he realized the only way to thwart a deadly and fiery…
Facts Matter (Oct. 7): Hospital Denies Kidney Transplant to Unvaccinated Woman and Donor
In Colorado, a 56-year-old woman who is experiencing stage 5 kidney failure was told by the hospital that she’s been kicked off of the transplant list because she has not been vaccinated—despite the fact that she has already found an organ donor and that she has a religious objection. Meanwhile, nearly 200,000 at-home COVID-19 tests were…
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